Proverbial Wisdom
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
337. What better school for manners, than the company of virtuous women?
Essay XIV, The Rise of Arts and Sciences
338.
Help refused
Is hindrance sought and found.
Ferishtah’s Fancies, Two Camels
339.
Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, the gnomèd mine —
Unweave a rainbow.
Lamia, II
340.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Essay on Criticism, Pt II, line 133
341.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III
342. What cannot be eschew’d, must be embrac’d.
Merry Wives of Windsor (Page), Act V, Scene V